I have long maintained that while there is significant noise in numbers, the real power of the peace globe movement lies in the eloquent prose buried deep in the pages of peace posts from Nigeria to Switzerland. But when people are not allowed to speak, hope is forever silenced and change has no chance.......because silence is the greatest partner to apathy and apathy is the greatest threat of all. My hope is that this movement will continue to harness and illuminate the goodness and imagination of people whose hearts truly long for peace and tolerance. It is my belief that massive change always starts with momentum born of passion and unrest.

"She writes: Why do we fight today ? Because they attacked us first. Civil war. Biological war. Because we want to protect our values. Holy war and war gods. Because they have the bomb and they’re not supposed to. Preventive war, atomic war. Because they torture. War crimes. Because we have weapons to sell. Economic war. War of attrition. Phony war. War games.I’m tired of all these clichés about wars and the need to fight. A war as no morality, no matter how hard our leaders try to sell it. Nothing can justify violence, period. Wars are fueled by racial, ethnic, religious animosities or ideological fervor. How do you teach someone peace by fighting? How are we making things better? Is there really a civilization above all others who has the surpreme right? Don’t we all know, by now, that there is no right or wrong and that today’s legitimate reason to attack will be tomorrow’s legitimate reason to defend?No, we don’t."

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So fantastically well put! Thanks for posting this Mimi -am going to go check the author out........getting excited about the 4th!! Posted a piece about the Dalai Lama yesterday, will do another peace post today!

I firmly believe that more citizens of the world feel exactly this way than feel that fighting is the answer. The problem is that the ones who believe in fighting and war shout louder and get all the press.

Sometimes I get so discouraged reading comments on articles and blogs. Everything is so contentious and lacking respect for different view points.